Offerings & Events
Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.
In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit
We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
Art Walk | Small Reverences | Calley E. Morrison
Please join us Thursday, November 6 from 5-8p in The Apothecary for Art Walk featuring weavings from Calley E. Morrison.
The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Passions with D. Michael Louderback, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.
The Body of the Therapist
An offering for therapists. Therapists’ body and the container they hold. In this offering you will be guided through somatic parts work. Tending to the soma through yoga and your internal landscape.
Creative Healers Hub
The Creative Healers Hub is a monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Skillshare- Witnessing: Attuning to BIPOC Nervous Systems
Witnessing: Attuning to BIPOC Nervous Systems
The Collective Skillshare is a dynamic lunch-and-learn style workshop series designed to foster ongoing professional development and community connection.
This month, we have the pleasure of witnessing a heartfelt dialogue between Tolu and Gitika, who will share from their lived experiences and labor as mental health professionals.
We aim to offer an intimate look into our heart, mind, and spirit to center the BIPOC experience in the current moment.
Through dialog and connection, we invite you to recognize how our mental health training recruits us into complicity with white supremacy. We hope to support you in building a more nervous-system aware practice that supports true healing and liberation in solidarity with BIPOC peoples.
The facilitators are Tolu Mejolagbe (Founder, Re-member Counseling) and Gitika Talwar (Founder, Pranh Healing & Wellness).
Tolu is a Somatic Therapist 2nd generation immigrant to the U.S. and of West African descent. Gitika is a Clinical-Community Psychologist, first generation immigrant to the U.S. and of South Asian descent.
We are passionate about decolonizing and liberating our mental health practice. Our firsthand and intergenerational experience with colonization has helped us recognize how centering the BIPOC experience in mental health trainings can lead to a collective awakening to how mental health systems are complicit in advancing colonial logics and how BIPOC-centered healing praxis can provide liberatory tools to benefit us all.
We are offering this skillshare to center the BIPOC experience, allowing clinicians of all identities to recognize their relationship with internalized white supremacy and its effects on the folks we serve. It aims to address how ignoring or minimizing the impact of colonization maintains trauma.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.
Death Cafe
Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.
Somatic Cacao Circle
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore how first relationships inform how we move through the world. Learn how we can support and shift these early imprints in the therapeutic dynamic. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.
A Dash of Madness: Introduction to Human Narcissism
This workshop explores the unconscious roots of narcissism from a psychoanalytic perspective, highlighting how narcissistic patterns arise as coping mechanisms across all backgrounds. Participants will examine the societal and internal forces that drive narcissistic behavior, along with the roles of neglect, trauma, and shame. The workshop aims to deepen clinical insight and offer alternative approaches to healing and self-awareness.
Creative Healers Hub
The Creative Healers Hub is a monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Resource Share: Health Insurance for Us
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Navigating health insurance as a small business owner can feel overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to be. Join Cindy Hagen for practical guidance, resources, and a Q&A to help you explore your coverage options with confidence.
Harvest Shared Meal
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
As the wheel of the year turns from autumn toward winter, we invite our members to gather for a cozy potluck dinner. Come share food, stories, and connection as we celebrate the harvest season together.
Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Led by couples therapist Angel Thomson, the Hold Me Tight® Workshop offers a research-backed, 2-day weekend immersive program based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples deepen emotional intimacy, rebuild trust, and improve communication. In a safe, supportive space, you’ll learn practical tools to move from frustration and misunderstanding to connection and security in your relationship.
Somatic Chiropractic Demo
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Led by Somatic Chiropractor and Nervous System Educator Susanna Bergin, this workshop will address the physiological aspects of nervous system regulation, as well as the visible physical markers that practitioners can implement in their tracking of clients immediately. Through an experiential container, you’ll learn how to track signs of nervous system dysregulation, when to refer, and how to utilize co-regulation.
Creative Healers Hub
The Creative Healers Hub is a monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Chrysanthemum Crawl: An Artful Saturday
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Celebrate fall with the Chrysanthemum Crawl: An Artful Saturday in Pioneer Square. Stroll through local galleries, collect chrysanthemums, and enjoy a day of art, color, and seasonal charm. Bring a vase to create your own autumn bouquet!
Collective Wisdom: Community as Medicine with Gitika Talwar & Ellen Cline
HYBRID | FOR EVERYONE
An community exploration of how healing expands when we move beyond the one-on-one into shared, collective spaces. Together with Gitika Talwar and Ellen Kline, we’ll engage in dialogue, reflection, and collaboration around the practices and possibilities of communal connection for resilience and resistance.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Skillshare: Reclaiming Self-Energy: A Path Beyond Clinician Burnout
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
Guided by fellow member Angelica De Anda, LMHC, this lunch-and-learn style workshop explores how burnout takes root and offers pathways of restoration through self-energy, nervous system regulation, and the practices of rest. Together we’ll uncover ways to sustain our work while honoring our own vitality and connection.
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated!
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated! has been running since Fall 2022 on a monthly basis on Fridays. Sandra Killebrew and Chessie Snider alternate hosting the event. We'll meet at Victrola on 15th from 10am-12pm. Please say hi and introduce yourself!
The Clinic: Nervous Systems & Somatics with Smruti Desai, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Smruti Desai, LMHC, we will explore the nervous system and its role in regulation, trauma recovery, attachment, rest, and joy. This clinic will explore advanced techniques for working with the nervous system, how to hold a somatically attuned relational space, and how to support your clients in achieving awareness of their somatic processes to help them find more ease and capacity for themselves and their relationships with other humans and the world.
Writing While Tender | Creative Accountability
A drop-in virtual writing class facilitated by Sofiya Ko, licensed counselor and expressive arts therapist, Writing While Tender is a trauma-aware container where personal experience will be gently guided into expressive writing.
Autumn Re-wilding Retreat
Embark on a journey back to your primal self amidst the untouched beauty of nature. This retreat comes after the Fall Equinox and the cyclical change in season is an invitation to let go of what is no longer serving us. We will look toward the natural world to reconnect with our own spirits through sound baths, forest meditations, cacao ceremonies, holistic healing through saunas, breath work, yoga, and more.
Back to School Party: Learning Canopy Kickoff
Come kickoff a new season of learning and community together! We’ll gather to mark the shift into fall and orient to this year’s learning canopy and community rhythms. We'll engage in conversation about community as an antidote to burnout and we'll close our time with a casual hangout and professional headshot pop up!
Rooted Reflections Tarot
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Improv for All Seasons
In person
This event is for anyone looking to build more confidence, form new connections, and cultivate collaboration in the context of playful, spontaneous interactions. It’s great for practicing flexibility and sitting with ambiguity in a safe setting.
Skillshare: Confidentiality & Documentation: Centering Trust & Protection
Join us for this month’s Skillshare, Confidentiality & Documentation: Centering Trust & Protection—a lunch-and-learn conversation on recent changes in healthcare law and what they mean for our work as healers. We'll explore evolving confidentiality guidelines, potential risks in clinical practices, and how to navigate these shifts with discernment, care, and a commitment to equity. Come ready to learn, reflect, and share strategies for protecting both our clients and ourselves.
Art Walk | Guinevere Johnson
Please join us Thursday, September 4 from 5-8p in The Apothecary for the opening of Mosslight, a solo exhibition by Guinevere Johnson.
Parts of a whole: A somatic breathwork journey & IFS exploration
Join us for Parts of a Whole, a transformative workshop that weaves together the foundational principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) with the deep, embodied release of Somatic Breathwork.
Death Cafe
Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.
Cultural Awareness | Practicing therapy with Cultural Humility
Join us for an enriching and thought-provoking session on Practicing Therapy with Cultural Humility, led by Gitika Talwar, PhD—a Licensed Clinical-Community Psychologist in Washington State. With deep personal and professional experience working with international students, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented individuals, Dr. Talwar brings both compassion and expertise to this timely conversation.
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated!
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated! has been running since Fall 2022 on a monthly basis on Fridays. Sandra Killebrew and Chessie Snider alternate hosting the event. We'll meet at Victrola on 15th from 10am-12pm. Please say hi and introduce yourself!
Rooted Reflections Tarot
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Full Moon Circle ~ The Full Moon in Aquarius
Virtual
This gathering offers us time for sacred pause and connection – to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the earth, to our ancestors, community and soul/self. Alexa will guide us into the energy of August’s Full Moon in Aquarius and it’s corresponding tarot card, The Star.
Leanna Bre | So People-y
Please join us Thursday, August 7 from 5-8p in The Apothecary for So People-y, a photography exhibition by Leanna Bre.
Field Trip: Sound Bath at Pier 62
Summer Field Trip Series
Meet up with other Shelterwood Collective Members, family, and friends for an evening walk on the waterfront and a sound bath at Pier 62.
The Sacred Slut Circle: Energy Orgasm Activation
A monthly gathering for women and feminine beings designed to help you reconnect with your sensuality, embrace pleasure and feel deeply rooted in your sexuality. Each month, rituals focus on a different theme of erotic embodiment, facilitated by Olaiya Land and other sex witches, mischief makers and pleasure priestesses.
Leaving home to come home: Immigration and Mental Health
Join Gitika "Dr G" Talwar PhD in an online course on immigration and mental health, providing insight and tools for cultural awareness.
Collective Crafting
Please Join us in the Apothecary for a weekend of creation in tandem with the Seattle Art Fair. This is a drop in event 11-5, July 17-19. All are welcome.
Full Moon Circle ~ The Full Moon in Capricorn
Virtual
This gathering offers us time for sacred pause and connection – to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the earth, to our ancestors, community and soul/self. Alexa will guide us into the energy of July’s Full Moon in Capricorn and it’s corresponding tarot card, The Devil.